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Plaintiffs still allege they fell from non-compliant, outdoor wooden deck at restaurant
PITTSBURGH – A pair of Pittsburgh plaintiffs have reiterated claims that Satalio’s Restaurant had a non-compliant outdoor wooden deck attached to its property, which they fell from more than a year ago and sustained several serious injuries in the process. -
Appetizer at Cheesecake Factory just the start of lawsuit
PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh woman says she was enjoying her appetizer at The Cheesecake Factory when she bit down on a piece of glass. -
Judge overrules objections in defamation suit between energy group president and Pa. senator
PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has overruled preliminary objections from a Pennsylvania state senator targeted with defamation allegations from an energy company president, who claimed the senator’s use of his last name to describe the practice of not limiting net energy metering in a memorandum for her proposed legislation has harmed his professional reputation. -
Comfort Inn hotel denies alleged liability and wrongdoing associated with man's drowning death
PITTSBURGH – A Comfort Inn hotel in Pittsburgh has denied liability for the death of a man who died as a result of drowning in its pool last July, as alleged in a wrongful death lawsuit brought in his name. -
Eye for an eye: Dad accused of vengeance for daughter's black eye
PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man whose daughter suffered a black eye on a trampoline faces a lawsuit after allegedly sucker-punching the father of the girl he blamed. -
Black plaintiffs claim unlawful search, seizures by McKeesport and Allegheny County
PITTSBURGH - Cops for McKeesport and Allegheny County are accused of violating the civil right of Black individuals during the pursuit of a suspect. -
Pittsburgh woman insists she ingested glass shards while eating enchilada from Trader Joe's
PITTSBURGH – A local woman who said she unknowingly ingested glass shards when eating a frozen enchilada she purchased from her local Trader Joe’s grocery store, has reiterated her claims against the store and the manufacturer of the enchilada. -
Couple maintain husband's injuries were from defectively designed hunting boots
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania couple maintain that a pair of hunting boots the husband-plaintiff purchased were designed defectively, causing the soles of the boot to unexpectedly separate and him to suffer an injurious fall. -
Lawsuit accuses heating pad of third-degree burns on woman's bum
PITTSBURGH - The maker of a heating pad faces a Pittsburgh lawsuit that claims it severely burned a customer. -
Class action suit over powerboat maintenance will stay in original court
PITTSBURGH – Plaintiffs behind a class action lawsuit which claimed that a manufacturer of sailboats and powerboats has violated the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act through preventing third-party professionals from performing maintenance operations on their boats, without voiding the owners’ respective warranties, have successfully pushed for the suit to stay in its court of origin. -
Suit over maintenance man's fatal MDS may be sent to Commerce and Complex Litigation Center
PITTSBURGH – A suit alleging that a woman’s late husband was subjected to a variety of hazardous and toxic substances in his maintenance duties for U.S. Steel, including benzene – which she maintains caused her husband’s death in 2021 from myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) – may be transferred to Allegheny County’s Commerce and Complex Litigation Center. -
Allegheny County says it is not responsible for jail inmate's spinal injuries sustained in fall
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County has responded to litigation brought an inmate at its jail which claimed the slippery surface of a shower floor caused him to fall and suffer herniated discs in his spine and other injuries, discounting any and all liability for the entire incident. -
Jewish man who accused wine distributor of offensive and discriminatory behavior, settles claims
PITTSBURGH – A local man who claimed he was subjected to a hostile work environment, including epithets made against his Jewish heritage and that he was fired when he made complaints about the offending behavior, has settled those claims. -
Wrongful death suit says woman burned alive after hitting propane truck
PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County lawsuit says a passenger in a car burned alive when it collided with a propane truck whose fuel line severed. -
Pittsburgh Steelers season ticket holder says she was wrongfully accused of using a racial slur
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh Steelers season ticket holder alleges she was treated rudely by stadium personnel and then defamed by being wrongly accused of using a racial slur towards another stadium employee working during the game. -
Attorney who alleged other counsel stole his work product and refused to return it now fights sanctions
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania attorney who alleged that proprietary information from his law firm is in the possession of other counsel and that those defendants have refused to return his information to him, is now fighting sanctions levied against him by the defendants. -
Uber seeks to move case surrounding murder of driver to arbitration, rather than court
PITTSBURGH – Uber has argued that wrongful death litigation brought by a Pennsylvania woman concerning the murder of her daughter, a driver for the ride share service who was held up at gunpoint and killed by her passenger, should be resolved in arbitration and not in a court of law. -
Home inspection group avails itself of liability for property buyers' mold exposure injuries
PITTSBURGH – A home inspection company has refuted claims liability that it was responsible for mold exposure injuries that a pair of New Kensington home buyers sustained, after they purchased the property in question from their co-defendants. -
N.Y. man sues, alleging fall on abandoned sidewalk scooter in Pittsburgh fractured his collarbone
PITTSBURGH – A New York man says he fractured his collarbone after falling on an abandoned Spin-brand scooter on a Pittsburgh sidewalk, and has sued a host of corporate defendants to recoup damages for the injuries he says he sustained in the process. -
Trader Joe's and enchilada manufacturer deny responsibility for woman's ingestion of glass
PITTSBURGH – Both Trader Joe’s and the manufacturer of a frozen enchilada have denied liability for injuries a local woman alleged she suffered, when she ingested glass shards while eating one of those enchiladas she purchased from her local Trader Joe’s grocery store.